voice.

[ Annabeth's voice is a welcome familiarity, and while his feelings from home and the ones he'd left behind here immediately begin to clash when he hears her, there's something so calming about coming from a war that's ended. in coming after having weight similar to the one that Atlas bears removed from his shoulders.

so maybe his voice is a little lighter than what it used to be, maybe he doesn't sound quite so detached as he used to. because while he doesn't exactly want to be back in Wonderland, at least now he knows what happened, he knows how everything turned out. ]

Thanks. [ he reaches for his device, pulls it closer to hear her better. ] How long was I away?